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Firearm seized from man in mental crisis in Redwood City

City police seized a firearm Wednesday from a man in a mental crisis in Redwood City.

By Bay City News

City police seized a firearm Wednesday from a man in a mental crisis in Redwood City.

On Wednesday at 5:35 p.m., Redwood City Police Department officers responded to a residence after two 911 hang-up calls were reported.

Police said a check of previous calls to the residence revealed that a 30-year-old man with a history of mental illness lives there.

Responding officers met with the resident's brother and confirmed the man was experiencing a crisis, was armed with a handgun and had made criminal threats to harm his brother, police said.

Officers on the scene attempted to create a relaxed atmosphere and a short time later, the man emerged from the residence with a loaded handgun in his pocket, police said.

Officers were able to convince the man to surrender peacefully and hand over the firearm.

The man was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and the case is under review for criminal threats.

Police said the residence was searched for additional firearms, but none were found, and a Gun Violence Restraining Order was obtained.

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Two arrested in Redwood City for theft of construction equipment valued at $50,000

Two arrested for robbery in Redwood City of construction equipment valued at $50,000

By Bay City News

Two men have been arrested in connection with the theft of construction equipment and copper wire worth approximately $50,000 in Redwood City, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said Friday.

The robbery, which apparently occurred over the weekend, was discovered around 7:30 a.m. Monday in the 700 block of Industrial Road in San Carlos, the sheriff's department said.

Aproximadamente una hora después, un oficial de policía informó haber encontrado la propiedad robada a unas cuatro millas de distancia, en 2nd Avenue y Rolison Road en Redwood City, y arrestó a José Cauich, de 48 años, dijo el departamento del alguacil.

El martes, los detectives entregaron una orden de allanamiento en la cuadra 900 de Haven Avenue en Redwood City y arrestaron a Anjel Jiménez, de 52 años, según el informe.

Cauich y Jiménez fueron acusados ​​de robo comercial, posesión de propiedad robada y conspiración para cometer un delito grave, agregaron las autoridades.

Cualquier persona con información sobre este delito o robos comerciales asociados debe comunicarse con el Detective D. Brandt (650) 363-4064 o dbrandt@smcgov.org. Se pueden dejar sugerencias anónimas al (800) 547-2700.

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Mexican among those wounded in shooting in San Francisco's Mission district

The Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, California, informó  que, sobre el tiroteo en distrito Mission ocurrido el pasado viernes 9 de junio en la Calle 24, y a partir del seguimiento con autoridades locales como parte de los protocolos de protección consular, se ha identificado a una persona mexicana dentro de las ocho personas heridas. 

A través de un comunicado, las autoridades mexicanas informaron que personal consular ya se encuentra en comunicación con la persona afectada, así como con sus familiares, para brindarle la asistencia correspondiente y apoyo legal ante lo ocurrido.

The Consulate also stressed that, in order to verify the proper application of justice, it will continue to monitor the case and will request the relevant authorities to investigate the events that occurred.

Finalmente, el Consulado General de México en San Francisco lamentó los hechos ocurridos y reiteró su compromiso con la protección y defensa de los derechos e intereses de las personas mexicanas en el exterior.

Y es que, el pasado 9 de junio, al menos nueve personas recibieron disparos en lo que la policía cree que fue un «incidente dirigido y aislado» en el barrio de Mission District de San Francisco.

El tiroteo se produjo mientras se celebraba «una especie de fiesta en el barrio», aseguró en conferencia de prensa Eve Laokwansathitaya, agente del Departamento de Policía de San Francisco. 

De acuerdo con el diario The San Francisco Chronicle, los disparos ocurrieron poco después de las 21:00 horas durante una fiesta organizada por una tienda de ropa cerca de la intersección de la Calle 24 y la avenida Treat.

Las víctimas fueron ocho hombres y una mujer con edades entre los 20 y los 34 años, precisó el Hospital General Zuckerberg San Francisco, a donde fueron llevadas. 

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Five of the most polluted beaches in California are from San Mateo County

Five of the most polluted beaches in California are from San Mateo County
Imagen cortesía de la organización Heal the Bay

Según el 33º informe anual sobre playas de la organización medioambiental sin fines de lucro Heal the Bay, cinco de las playas más contaminadas en California se encuentran en el condado de San Mateo. Sin embargo, también cuanta con la mejor.

The study, released Wednesday, found that California beaches have been hit by 50 percent more rainfall than in the past 10 years during the recent winter months, along with an alarming 45 million gallons of sewage discharged, negatively affecting water quality along coastal waterways.

Thus, Playa Linda Mar ranked third in the worst beaches in the state, followed by Marlin Park in fourth place, Erckenbrack Park in fifth, Pillar Point Harbor in seventh, and Gull Park in tenth place.

Aunque la calidad general sigue siendo muy buena en tiempo seco, la playa estatal de Bean Hollow, en el condado de San Mateo, y el faro de Point Loma, en el condado de San Diego, fueron las dos únicas playas incluidas en la Lista de Honor 2022-2023 ‒frente a las 50 de 2021‒, debido a la gran cantidad de precipitaciones.

Cabe destacar que Heal the Bay’s Beach Bummer List clasifica las playas más contaminadas de California en función de los niveles de bacterias nocivas en el océano. La lista Beach Bummer 2022-2023 incluye playas en los condados de Los Ángeles, San Mateo, San Diego y Orange, así como en el área de Tijuana en México.

Este año, el Muelle de Santa Mónica y Playa Blanca en Tijuana empataron en el primer lugar de las peores playas, ya que ambos se enfrentaron a importantes problemas de calidad del agua. La ciudad de Santa Mónica está abordando activamente los problemas de calidad del agua en el muelle, y sospechan que la materia fecal de las aves es un factor importante que contribuye a la mala calidad del agua, sin embargo, el jurado todavía está deliberando, destacó la organización.

Playa Blanca, junto con la cercana desembocadura del río Tijuana, clasificada como la sexta playa más contaminada, la cual se ve afectada por la escorrentía contaminada por aguas residuales de la zona de Tijuana, que carece de infraestructuras de alcantarillado suficientes en determinadas regiones. 

La playa de Mother’s Beach, en Marina del Rey, un perenne fastidio debido a su escasa circulación ha entrado en la lista en el número 8 este año. Y en el condado de Orange, Poche Beach en Dana Point recibía aguas de escorrentía de un colector de aguas pluviales situado directamente en la playa, lo que contribuía a la mala calidad del agua.

La buena noticia es que 95 por ciento de las playas de California evaluadas por Heal the Bay recibieron una calificación de A o B durante el verano de 2022, lo que está a la par de la media. Aun así, los científicos de Heal the Bay siguen profundamente preocupados por la calidad del agua de los océanos. 

Las aguas contaminadas suponen un importante riesgo para la salud de millones de personas en California, pues las que entran en contacto con agua con un grado C o inferior corren un mayor riesgo de contraer enfermedades como infecciones estomacales, de oído, de las vías respiratorias superiores y erupciones cutáneas. 

Las playas y los ríos suelen tener una mala calidad del agua después de un episodio de lluvias. Menos lluvia significa normalmente que una menor cantidad de contaminantes, incluidas las bacterias, las cuales son arrastrados a través de los desagües pluviales y los ríos hacia el océano. 

Los vertidos de aguas residuales suponen un mayor riesgo para la salud y provocan el cierre inmediato de las playas, que deben atenderse hasta que los funcionarios públicos despejen la zona.

«A medida que el cambio climático siga provocando latigazos meteorológicos, nuestros problemas de agua pasarán de la escasez a la contaminación. Este año, las precipitaciones récord han tenido importantes repercusiones en la calidad del agua en toda la costa de California», afirmó Tracy Quinn, presidenta y directora General de Heal the Bay. 

«Ahora más que nunca, debemos dar prioridad a los proyectos de múltiples beneficios para gestionar las aguas pluviales como una solución tanto para la calidad del agua como para el suministro, todo ello garantizando al mismo tiempo que el público se mantenga informado de los riesgos para la salud pública», subrayó.

Durante más de 30 años, Heal the Bay ha asignado calificaciones anuales de «A a F» a 700 playas desde el estado de Washington hasta Tijuana, México, incluidas 500 playas de California en el informe 2022-2023, basándose en los niveles de contaminación bacteriana fecal en el océano medidos por las agencias de salud del condado. 

Five of the most polluted beaches in California are from San Mateo County
Imagen cortesía de la organización Heal the Bay

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San Mateo County to Seek More Participation of Women in Law Enforcement

San Mateo County to Seek More Participation of Women in Law Enforcement
Photo: San Mateo County Sheriff's Office Instagram.

San Mateo County Sheriff, Christina Corpus, firmó recientemente el compromiso con la iniciativa 30×30, un movimiento nacional que promueve la participación de las mujeres en las fuerzas del orden, fomentando así la equidad en las fuerzas de orden público.

«Nunca es demasiado pronto para inspirar a la próxima generación de mujeres líderes. La representación es importante: contar con modelos femeninos capacita a la próxima generación de mujeres jóvenes para alcanzar sus objetivos en el ámbito policial, y para saber que pueden triunfar y prosperar en una carrera policial», aseguró en sus redes sociales la sheriff Corpus.

Currently, women make up only 12% of sworn officers and 3% of police leadership in the US.  

El objetivo de la iniciativa 30×30 es aumentar la representación de mujeres en las clases de reclutas policiales al 30 por ciento para 2030, y garantizar que las políticas y la cultura policiales apoyen intencionalmente el éxito de mujeres oficiales calificadas a lo largo de sus carreras.

Y es que, de acuerdo con la organización, la subrepresentación de las mujeres en la policía socava la seguridad pública. 

La investigación, dijo, muestra que las mujeres oficiales usan menos fuerza y ​​menos fuerza excesiva; se nombran en menos quejas y juicios; son percibidos por las comunidades como más honestas y compasivas; se obtienen mejores resultados para las víctimas de delitos, especialmente en casos de agresión sexual; y hacen menos arrestos discrecionales.

La Iniciativa 30×30 es una coalición de líderes policiales, investigadores y organizaciones profesionales que se han unido para promover la representación y las experiencias de las mujeres en las agencias policiales de Estados Unidos.

Cabe destacar que las agencias que firman el Compromiso 30×30 han acordado tomar medidas para aumentar la representación de las mujeres en todos los rangos de las fuerzas del orden; y garantizar que las políticas y los procedimientos estén libres de todo sesgo.

Además, se comprometen a promover la contratación, retención y promoción equitativas de mujeres oficiales; y asegurarse de que su cultura sea inclusiva, respetuosa y de apoyo a las mujeres en todos los rangos y roles de las fuerzas del orden.

De acuerdo la Iniciativa 30×30, las mujeres afrodescendientes y de color, en particular, enfrentan experiencias agravantes de prejuicios y discriminación en la aplicación de la ley debido a su raza o etnia, además de su género. 

Mientras que los oficiales transgénero y de género no conforme se enfrentan a la discriminación en función de su identidad y presentación de género. Otras identidades también dan forma a la experiencia de una mujer oficial en la aplicación de la ley: una madre o cuidadora puede requerir un horario modificado para las tareas de cuidado, o una oficial embarazada puede requerir ciertas adaptaciones físicas.

En ese sentido, apuntó, es fundamental que las agencias participantes se centren en aumentar la representación de todas las mujeres, teniendo en cuenta las diversas experiencias de las mujeres de todos los orígenes y experiencias de vida para promover mejor la creación de un lugar de trabajo diverso e inclusivo para todos.

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CHP seizes enough fentanyl in San Francisco to kill more than 2 million people

Image: Office of the Governor Gavin Newsom

In its first six weeks of operation, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) seized enough fentanyl in San Francisco—more than 4.2 kilos—in the Tenderloin and immediate surrounding area of San Francisco to potentially kill 2.1 million people, nearly triple the city's entire population.

Authorities also seized more than 957 grams of methamphetamine, 319 grams of cocaine and 31 grams of heroin, in addition to making 92 felony and misdemeanor arrests, including charges related to fentanyl possession, illegal possession of firearms, driving under the influence and domestic violence.

Así lo informó este jueves el gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom, quien señaló que, según la Administración de Control de Drogas, una dosis letal de fentanilo es de 2 mg.

«Estoy orgulloso de los esfuerzos salvavidas de CHP y CalGuard para cerrar la tubería de veneno de Tenderloin y responsabilizar a los traficantes de drogas. Estos primeros resultados son prometedores y sirven como un llamado a la acción: debemos hacer más para limpiar las calles de San Francisco, ayudar a quienes luchan contra el consumo de sustancias y erradicar el fentanilo de nuestros vecindarios», subrayó.

A medida que CalGuard continúa mapeando las redes de sindicatos del crimen, los miembros del servicio han revisado una cantidad significativa de información policial para ayudar a las agencias locales a construir casos a gran escala. 

En ese sentido, se espera que más métricas que cuantifiquen el impacto de CalGuard estén disponibles en el futuro a medida que se desarrollen los casos.

Anteriormente, Newsom ordenó a las agencias estatales tomar otras medidas iniciales para mejorar la seguridad pública y abordar el deterioro en San Francisco. 

Entre los esfuerzos, destacan el Control de Bebidas Alcohólicas ‒ABC, por sus siglas en inglés‒ el cual está desarrollando un plan para implementar recursos adicionales para abordar los problemas de deterioro en Tenderloin, incluidos el merodeo y el graffiti, que rodean las licorerías, las estaciones de servicio y los mercados que tienen licencias ABC.

Además, Caltrans dijo estar incrementando sus esfuerzos de eliminación de grafiti, mejorando y reemplazando la señalización y aumentando las medidas de mantenimiento y embellecimiento en los corredores de alto tráfico.

A su vez, se ha asignado personal para ayudar a facilitar el desarrollo del plan estratégico de San Francisco para abordar los desafíos de la ciudad con los mercados de drogas al aire libre.

Lanzada por el gobernador Newsom el 1 de mayo de 2023, la operación conjunta de seguridad pública en San Francisco sirve como un esfuerzo de colaboración entre varias agencias, incluidas CHP, CalGuard, el Departamento de Justicia de California, el Departamento de Policía de San Francisco y el Fiscal de Distrito de San Francisco. 

La operación se centra en atacar el tráfico de fentanilo, interrumpir el suministro de la droga mortal en la ciudad y responsabilizar a los operadores de las redes de narcotráfico. 

 

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San Francisco will host the Women's World Cup Village

Image: World Cup Village

La ciudad de San Francisco volverá a ser sede del World Cup Village ‒Villa de la Copa Mundial‒, en esta ocasión femenil, evento en el cual se proyectarán cuatro partidos de la contienda, además de ofrecer diversas actividades para toda la familia.

The nonprofit Street Soccer USA, in partnership with the City of San Francisco, is leading the production of a public screening of four 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup matches at iconic downtown locations. 

Photo: World Cup Village

En la Villa habrá camiones de comida, comerciantes locales, actuaciones, actividades, música en vivo y más, todo ello alrededor de las pantallas gigantes. 

Únase al evento que celebra la diversidad cultural y la vitalidad de San Francisco.

Las sedes y fechas de la Women’s World Cup Village incluyen:

  • El Cruce, ubicado en el 200 de Folsom st., donde el 21 de julio se transmitirá el encuentro entre los equipos de EE. UU. y Vietnam a las 18:00 horas. Mientras que el 10 de agosto se pasará el partido de cuartos de final en el mismo horario.
  • Plaza Embarcadero, ubicado en Market st. y Steuart st., donde el 26 de julio se transmitirá en las pantallas la disputa entre EE. UU y Países Bajos en punto de las 18:00 horas.
  • Paseo JFK en 14th Ave. East Meadow, en el Parque Golden Gate, será la sede para la transmisión de la ronda 16 el 5 de agosto a las 19:00 horas.
Photo: World Cup Village

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They celebrate the API community in San Mateo County and call to stop hate against them

Celebrate API community in San Mateo County and call to stop hate against them
Photo: P360P

Amidst a lion dance, drums and a dinner celebrating the Heroes of API Caucus in San Mateo County, the organization's vice president and also Redwood City Mayor Jeff Gee, called to not only stop hate against the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community, but to push it back across the area.

Photo: P360P

In that sense, Gee invited the community to stand up against acts of hate to make San Mateo County a better and safer place to live.

San Mateo County API Caucus is an organization founded in 2018 that seeks to support the API community and elected and appointed API officials, and also advocates and supports policies that promote the goals and aspirations of the API community in San Mateo County.

On June 9, the San Mateo County API Caucus held its first Caucus Heroes Awards Dinner, where the lucky winners of the Ashland Award were recognized.  

Photo: P360P

«Ashland was 14 when she founded the first anti-Asian hate rally in San Mateo", Jeff Gee recalled.

Also honored at the event were Supervisor Dave Pine and former Peninsula Healthcare District CEO Cheryl Fama, who launched a hepatitis B campaign in San Mateo County..

Photo: P360P

And, he said, talking about hepatitis in the county is an important topic since it ranks fourth in terms of the number of hepatitis B cases in all of California.

Likewise, the work of other organizations such as the Chinese-American Association of American Citizens (OCA) was recognized for its 50th anniversary, during which time it has advocated not only for the Chinese-American community, but for the entire API community. 

Photo: P360P

The mayor of Redwood City recalled the work done by the API legislative group in California, which has managed to obtain resources to track hate crimes, not only against the API community, but in general.

Another important organization that has been working hard in recent years is Stop AAPI Hate, which was recognized for its fight against hate in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. 

At the event, attended by around 200 people, to discuss what can be done together for the API community and for San Mateo County, Jeff Gee called for joining forces to continue implementing measures that support a society of respect and unity.

Photo: P360P

«I am very honored to be the Mayor of Redwood City and to be part of the API Caucus, I am also honored to be part of Casa Círculo Cultural and the best thing we can do to push back on hate and make San Mateo County a great place to live is to work together across demographics, across the Latinx community, across the Jewish community, across the API community, across the Black community, and across the LGBTQ+ community, to be able to have conversations, work together and know where there are issues and incidences to push back on hate together.", he pointed out.

The API Caucus Heroes Night in San Mateo County becomes a memorable event by bringing together so many people who seek to end acts of hate for the API community but also for all communities that may feel vulnerable to racism, harassment or violence.

 

This publication was supported in whole or part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library.

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No more magical realism: Latin American Narrative uses Imagination and Fantasy to explain its world

No more magical realism: Latin American Narrative uses Imagination and Fantasy to explain its world

By Pilar Marrero. Ethnic Media Services

Throughout Latin America, writers who once relied on magical realism to capture the region's realities are increasingly turning to science fiction and fantasy.

For countries in the Global North, the term polycrisis has become something of a dark cloud over the horizon. The concept is increasingly the stuff of dystopian fantasies about a future in flames due to the convergence of multiple global and existential challenges.

In Latin America, the polycrisis has defined much of its history, and where writers once turned to magical realism, many are increasingly turning to science fiction to describe that reality.

Speculative, fantasy or imaginative literature – in other latitudes called science fiction – has a series of young representatives throughout Latin America who write to explore, from a different point of view, the harshest and most difficult realities of a continent accustomed to crises, poverty and corruption.

“A very common mistake is to confuse what we are doing in Latin America in terms of non-mimetic literature with magical realism,” explains, not without a hint of irritation, Mexican writer and editor Libia Brenda. “Many in the North think that if it is not the science fiction they know, then it must be magical realism.”

What writers like Alberto Quimal and Gabriela Damián Miravete (Mexico), Fernanda Trías and Mariana Enríquez (Argentina), Ignatio de Loyola Brandao (Brazil), or Liliana Colanzi and Edmundo Paz Soldan (Bolivia) are doing as literature today, has little to do with what Gabriel García Márquez, the greatest exponent of Latin American magical realism, did.

Writers like García Márquez, whose most emblematic novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, takes place in the fictional town of Macondo, always said that their literature was imbued with their reality, lives, stories, past, with the magical and extraordinary element that is not explained or commented on, it only exists in a natural form. In contrast, the current boom in Latin American literature delves into themes as varied as horror and environmentalism, technology, dystopia and fantasy.

According to some observers, these new works focus less on reconciling the past than on making sense of a tense and uncertain future.

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"The region is finding in its literature the futures that its politicians are unable to imagine," writes writer Jorge Carrión in an essay in the New York Times. The title of the essay is "Latin American Literature Takes a Turn Toward the Future."

In other words, Brenda says, “we do our own thing here.”

A “fantastic literature of another order”

This speculative literature, also known in other circles as "science fiction" - although this term is used more in the English-speaking world than in the Spanish-speaking world, at least to define what is done locally - is also quite different from what is done in the English-speaking world.

"The new mythologies, which readers undoubtedly need, are constructed by writers through hybridization... of indigenous worldviews with the masters of feminism, of technology with humor, of the essay with science fiction," Carrión's essay continues.

"A distinctive feature of Latin American science fiction is the combination of elements that we experience and therefore write about very naturally," explains Brenda.

"Something that is done a lot is mixing fantasy with science fiction and fantasy not understood in the framework of unicorns or dragons, but rather fantastic literature of a different order," he adds.

An example in the Mexican context is the story by Gabriela Damián Miravete, “Soñarán en el jardín” (They will dream in the garden), which can be read on the pages of the online magazine latinamericanliteraturetoday.org.

In the aforementioned garden live the pearly silhouettes ‒the “holographic memorial”‒ of women and girls murdered and disappeared in Mexico, in a past that, by the time of the story, has already been overcome.

In a country where at least ten women and girls die or disappear every day due to gender-based violence and domestic violence (official figures are rather conservative), Damián Miravete's story imagines a future in which women organize themselves and stop the murders.

Ursula K. Heise, a professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), points out that in Latin America, "what has attracted attention has been the attention paid to social scenarios rather than to science and technology" in so-called science fiction or "speculative" fiction, which is what many prefer to call this type of narrative.

No more magical realism: Latin American Narrative uses Imagination and Fantasy to explain its world
Artificial Intelligence interpretation of the holographic garden from the work “They will dream in the garden”, by Mexican writer Gabriela Damián Miravete, via Ethnic Media Services.

“If you think of people like Ignatio de Loyola Brandao in Brazil, science fiction becomes a way of articulating political critique, right?” Heise explains. “His great novel from 1981, Nao Verais Pais Nenhum, is about a somewhat futuristic Sao Paulo, where the whole Amazon has been deforested. It’s incredibly hot, and it’s all a metaphor for the military dictatorship of the time.”

Heise also refers to the Bolivian Edmundo Paz Soldán who "has thought about a lot of science fiction that arises in the context of having to write about oppressive forms of government under conditions of censorship."

Paz Soldán has written about what is apparently a future society or a society on another planet, but is in fact a veiled criticism of the conditions in her own country at the present time.

In 2005, Argentine Pedro Mairal wrote a novel that has become a cult classic, "The Year of the Desert," in which a force called the elements attacks the city of Buenos Aires, "where chaos reigns, food rots, epidemics break out, and women see their rights curtailed."

"It's hard to know exactly what this is referring to," Heise explains. "But the most plausible interpretation is that it refers to the collapse of the Argentine economy in 2001 and perhaps an indirect way of dealing with the dictatorial past and European colonialism."

looking for answers

Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez, known as "the queen of gothic realism" and winner of multiple awards in Spanish and English, explained it this way during an interview with El Economista de México:

"What is happening in the region, and it is a problem for many horror writers, is that the volume is already very high. We are experiencing a horror that is quite difficult to explain from a realistic perspective. It seems to me that fiction, and especially horror fiction, helps to obtain answers," he says.

The dystopian futures present in much Anglo-Saxon science fiction reflect the growing anxieties that many Latin Americans have long grappled with, Heise says.

"People in the Third World, in the developing world, in the Global South, so to speak, are already experiencing the problems of widespread waste, of climate change, of poverty, of hunger, of desertification, in a way that the Global North is just beginning to experience, but not yet," Heise notes.

And it is there, in that literature born from a complicated present, an uncertain future, and a tradition of fantasy and imagination that goes back to indigenous traditions and colonial and imperialist influences, where perhaps one can feel some echoes of other literary traditions such as magical realism and the inevitable extinction of Macondo.

This report is part of a special series exploring how global societies and diaspora communities in the US are coping with the “polycrisis», a term increasingly used to describe the confluence of current and emerging global crises. It has been funded by a grant from the Omega Resilience Awards.

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Redwood City Library Youth Center unveils mural

Redwood City Library Youth Center unveils mural
Photo: Courtesy of the Redwood City Library Youth Center

The Youth Center of the redwood city library has unveiled a new mural, which is a work by artist Misha, a Woodside High School student who won the contest to decorate one of the walls of the space.

“We couldn’t be happier with our new Teen Center mural!” the Redwood City Library said in a statement.

The educational and recreational space thanked its collaborators and the judges from the Redwood City Arts Commission and the art department at Sequoia High School.

Last but not least, she thanked Misha for her inspiring vision of reading, creativity and the world they both encompass. 

“We love our new mural! Stop by the Teen Center to see it in person.”

Those interested in seeing the mural can go to the Teen Center located on the second floor of the Redwood City Library located at 1044 Middlefield Rd, Monday through Thursday from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Saturdays from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

In the space, teens can find new gaming consoles and free use of headphones, controllers and chargers, as well as study supplies, printers and free-to-use computers.

Likewise, young people can be part of the Anime Club, Teen Makers Club, game tournaments, courses and more. 

The contest was sponsored by Friends of Redwood City Public Library, a volunteer organization that sorts, scans, and prices thousands of books, manages online book sales, and operates bookstore and other sales to support library programming or other library goods and services.

It also funds community and library programs such as Summer Learning Challenge, Authors, Traveling Storytime, Little Learners, Baby/Children/Teens, Arts and Crafts, Cultural Events, Job Seeking, Music and more.

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